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Kate De Goldi


Born
New Zealand
Genre
Children's, Fiction


Kate De Goldi is a full-time writer who grew up in Christchurch and now lives in Wellington. Her first book was for adults: called like you, really, it was published under the name Kate Flannery, and gave a series of interlinked short stories about the women in a Catholic family. Since then she has won numerous awards and accolades for her fiction, including the American Express and Katherine Mansfield Awards for short stories, and the overall Children’s Book Award in 1997 for her young adult novel Sanctuary.

In 2000, her novel about adoption, Closed, Stranger won an Honour Award in the New Zealand Post Children and Young Adults' Book Awards, and in 2001, Kate was made an Arts Foundation Laureate. Her book Clubs, illustrated by Jacqui Colley ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 4,809 ratings · 745 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors
The 10 PM Question
3.79 avg rating — 3,068 ratings — published 2008
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Eddy, Eddy
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The ACB with Honora Lee
3.84 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2012 — 16 editions
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From the Cutting Room of Ba...
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Sanctuary
3.51 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
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Clubs: A Lolly Leopold Story
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Closed, Stranger
3.57 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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Billy: A Lolly Leopold Story
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Love, Charlie Mike
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“I wanted to write about the complexity and hilarity in the everyday business of being human.”
― Kate De Goldi, The 10 PM Question
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“He was a funny guy, and a smart one- and the smartest thing about him, in Frankie's view, was that he never, ever, ever worried.”
― Kate De Goldi, The 10 PM Question
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“Bonga swetso!”
― Kate De Goldi, The 10 PM Question
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